Due to a combination of travel and hectic work commitments, I've fallen drastically behind on my image processing. So, to quote a movie lyric by Trey Parker: "we're gonna need a montage!"

In the "warts and all" spirit, I have included a mix of imaging conditions and data quality. I have also kept the processing similar between images, so that the differences you see will be primarily data quality.

On many of the nights there was a gusty breeze, which is unusual here (unless it's about to rain). For the images in mid to late July, this was causing an extreme amount of image shake and is actually the primary reason for the blurring in these images. I eventually realised the screws for the adapter plate on my iOptron tri-pier had worked themselves slightly loose, compromising the rigidity of the mount assembly. The situation was much improved for the final session in this series.

Montage of three imaging sessions
Upon loading the images into Astrobin, I realised I had (quite accidentally) captured almost identical aspects of Jupiter on the 4th, 16th and 21st July. This allowed me to create a montage (and animation below) illustrating the relative motion of Jupiter's cloud formations over that 2.5 week period.

2019-07-16 15:04 UT
I did already post this image on CN in a separate thread, but including it here for completeness and comparison. This imaging session was memorable due to the dark blue, almost black eddy of clouds in the turbulent wake of the GRS (to the NW of the GRS itself). So dark was this eddy that his feature was immediately obvious in the raw data ... I initially worried it was a big chunk of crud in the imaging chain!

Another interesting feature in this image is the combination of clouds that looks for all the world like a lower case letter "a" (in the northern polar region, almost directly north of the GRS).

2019-08-01 14:58 UT
OK, I snuck one image from August in as well ... Nice to capture Oval BA for a change (it's been a while for me) and I had identified and fixed my mount vibration issue by this time.

Always fade out at the end of a montage ...

If you fade out it will seem like more time has passed in a montage ...

Something for everyone in that Jupiter collection! Lots of terrific images. It is good to enjoy more of your 2019 work. With your work here and Daryl's recent it feels like an official toast has been raised to the season. However some more good images are still coming in.

Good that you are also exposing us to your "auteur" montage philosophy!

Mark

Thanks Mark ... I can't take credit for the "montage philosophy" though, that's a direct quote from the movie/song I'm referencing.

Something for everyone in that Jupiter collection! Lots of terrific images. It is good to enjoy more of your 2019 work. With your work here and Daryl's recent it feels like an official toast has been raised to the season. However some more good images are still coming in.

Now all you have to do it rescale those images equally in the animation from the 4th, 16th & 21st to put the cherry on top of the final layer of cream on the cake..!

Thanks Darryl! Yes, I got a bit lazy there ... have a mountain (well, small hill) of Saturn data to get through as well, but might come back to it. My excuse for now: it demonstrates the change in apparent size over that period as well lol.